Julio Obama Mefuman was serving a 60-year jail time period after being taken from South Sudan in a suspected kidnapping.
A outstanding dissident in Equatorial Guinea has died in jail whereas serving a 60-year jail sentence, his group mentioned.
Julio Obama Mefuman, 51, who was additionally a Spanish citizen and was taken from South Sudan in a suspected kidnapping in 2019, “died in Oveng Azem jail” within the japanese metropolis of Mongomo, the MLGE3R motion mentioned.
It gave no date for Obama Mefuman’s loss of life however accused the nation’s hardline authorities of “torture”.
MLGE3R stands for the Motion for the Liberation of the Third Equatorial Guinea and is predicated in Spain, the central African state’s former coloniser.
On Monday, Equatorial Guinea’s overseas minister Simeon Oyono Esono Angue mentioned Obama Mefuman “died in a Mongomo hospital following sickness” however refuted any accusation of torture.
A spokesman for the Spanish overseas ministry confirmed the loss of life however declined to present particulars.
Requires inquiry
Andres Esono Ondo, head of the Convergence for Social Democracy, Equatorial Guinea’s solely authorised opposition occasion, printed a tweet during which he condemned “Julio Obama’s loss of life in jail”. He referred to as for a global inquiry “to make clear what occurred and be sure that all prisoners have the fitting to household visits”.
Ondo took half in presidential elections final November during which 80-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was credited with 94.9 p.c of the vote.
Amnesty Worldwide urged President Obiang to “guarantee an unbiased and pressing investigation” is opened into Obama Mefuman’s loss of life.
Obama Mefuman’s loss of life got here lower than two weeks after Spain’s Excessive Courtroom introduced an investigation into his suspected kidnapping and torture and that of a second dissident, Feliciano Efa Mangue, who additionally has Spanish citizenship.
A judicial supply mentioned the 2, together with two Equatorial Guinea nationals who reside in Spain, had been seized in South Sudan in late 2019 and flown to Equatorial Guinea.
In March 2020, Mangue was handed a 90-year time period and Obama Mefuman 60 years for allegedly having taken half in an tried coup towards Obiang in 2017.
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